Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1887-05-05
I WONDER

a man who will lie about you?
If that part of Fountain street be-
tween Ridge and Iowa streets will
be improved any this season?
Why it is dangerous to be out
spring time? Because the grass has
blades, the flowers pistils, the leaves
shoot, the bull rushes out, and the
COW slips in the garden.
If Pointers will be boiling over
with enthusiasm for the reunion this
year as usual?
How many vacant houses in town?
Not one that is fit to live in.
If ice will be cheaper this sum
mer? 1t will be an-ice thing, if so.
How often should horse collars be
laundried?
If all the Presidents of the United
States would reach from Washing
ton to Cleveland?
If certain farmer was mad when
he received two-dollar set of false
teeth in return for his $40 sent for a
feed cutter?
If that large hole visible in a
young gentlemau's clothing while
paradlng the street the other day
was purposely cut to show the red
Undertaking?
If "Soapine did it'':-intoxicated
the agents so thoroughly Saturday
night that it was necessary to run
them in" to preserve peace? If so,
the article will meet with ready
sale.
Who put that advertisement in a
Galena paper on our boy 'Enry?
If the man who lends his inhu-
ence ever gets it back?
Why most of us are more willing
to talk than to listen?
If oats wouldn't improve the ap-
pearanoe of the fresh fish team more
than those bells:
How one can always take pains?
BY eating green cucumbers.
If you get an unknown quantity
when you buy quart box of straw
berries?
If the bachelor was right when he
suggested that births should be
published under the head of new
music?
If black eye may not be proper
ly callsd a eolored swell?
Why one of the hardest punish
ments that can be inflicted on boy
is to make him go to bed, and the
next is to make him get up again?
If the Montfort girls are not good
looking judging from what Boone
said?
If it was "Giltz" or Soapine that
did it?
If Mineral Point isn't getting to
be good city for entertainments?
In what manner the women voters
will pay their poll-taxP
If that young lady from away
knew that those birds that sing in
the meadows at night have four
legs?
Why SO many people have to lick
their pencil before the can attempt
to write?
If "Alb" wouldn't make good
miner?
Whether the svrest way for sweet
girl graduates TO get into print Is
not to wear calico dresses on Com
mencement Day?
THE Marbles are greeted with
iammed full houses and shouts of
merriment nightly, at Court House
Hall. Saturday night will be pos
itively the last night.
q. w. LUsTED, of Lancaster, who
was mail agent on the CHI. &
North western road between Ian
caster and Milwaukee, and was IN.
jured in the collision near Pine
Bluff last fall, has recovered $4,000
damages in the circuit court at
Madison. -DodgegAIe Chronicle.
DELIER has again received his
usual spring invoice Of the celebrat-
ed Cloyes, Utica, fine made shoes
for ladies, misses and children. He
has also added a line of gents fine
buttoned and laced shoes of the
same make. These shoes are all
that they are recommended to be,
and parties who have purchased the
Cloyes shoes will not hesitate to
buy again. Prices as low rs other
popular makes.
FELL on A Cow A four-year-
old child of John Jeide's while
playing in the hay loft of his barn
last Monday, fell from . window
that il about fftsen feet from the
ground. A COW happened TO be
| lying directly under the window,